Goondiwindi Song

Oh, it’s Barefoot Sally are my name.
And Wellshot are my station;
Though it’s no disgrace, the old black face—
It’s the colour of my nation.

Chorus:

Oh, it’s boomeri-eye and mind your eye
And don’t kick up a shindy
For we’ll all waltz in and out again.
And dance the wild corroboree.

Oh, it’s boomeri-eye and mind your eye.
And don’t kick up a shindy,
I’ve got a boy in Camooweal
And one in Goondiwindi.

From the Terry Hie Hie to Mungindi,
And down to Goondiwindi.
We’ll dance the fish and drink all night,
And dance the wild corroboree.

My boyfriend down in Tallwood town,
Way down in Goondiwindi,
He dance me round barefoot on the ground
Way out in Goondiwindi.

Oh, Master Sammie a very fine chap,
And also Master Willie,
I send my piccaninny down every day,
To boil his blanky billy.

NB: last verse is from the singing of Arthur Davis of Cullenbone, NSW, also collected in the 1950s.